CASAGRA TRANSFORMATIVE LEADERSHIP MODEL

SISTER CAROLINA AGRAVANTE

BIOGRAPHY

° She is famous for being the first Filipina theorist for writing the CASAGRA Transformative
Leadership Model. The title of the theory was derived from her name, CArolina S. AGRAvante.
° She finished her secondary education at St. Paul Univeristy.
° Manila (formerly St. Paul College - Manila) as class salutatorian.
° In 1964, she earned her BS Nursing degree in the same school as magna cumlaude. In the same
year, she passed the nurse licensure examinations as the board topnotcher.
° From 1967 to 1969, she studied Master’s Degree in Nursing Education at Catholic University
of America as a full-fledged scholar.
° In 2002, she earned her Doctoral Degree in Philosophy at University of the Philippines Manila
the same year her theory was published.
° She served as the president of St. Paul University - Iloilo, where she taught research subjects
among senior students.
° She was a former president of the Association of Deans of the Philippines Colleges of Nursing
(ADPCN) as she became the representative in the International Nursing Congress that was held
in Brunei in 1996. A year after, she was a part of a delegation that participated in the
International Council of Nursing in Vancouver, Canada.
° Received a Service Award from the Philippine Accreditation Association of Schools, Colleges
and Universities (PAASCU) for being one of the accreditors.
° One of the founding members of the Integrated Registered Nurses of the Philippines (IRNP).
° Currently, she is the President of St. Paul College - Ilocos Sur while performing the duties of
the Vice-President for Academics. Moreover, she also functions as the program chair of the
school's Department of Nursing.
CONCEPTS

° The CASAGRA Transformative Leadership Model have concepts of leadership from a psycho-
spiritual point of view, designed to lead to radical change from apathy or indifference to a
spiritual person.
° Servant-leader formula is the enrichment package prepared as intervention for the study which
has three parts that parallel the three concepts of the CASAGRA transformative leadership
model, namely: the care complex primer, a retreat-workshop on Servant-leadership, and a
seminar-workshop on Transformative Teaching for nursing faculty.
° Special expertise is the level of competence in the particular nursing area that the professional
nurse is engaged in workshop is the spiritual exercise organized in an ambience of prayer where
the main theme is the contemplation of Jesus Christ as a Servant-leader.
° Servant-leadership behavior refers to the perceived behavior of nursing faculty manifested
through the ability to model the servant leadership qualities to students, ability to bring out the
best in students, competence in nursing skills, commitment to the nursing profession, and sense
of collegiality with the school, other health professionals, and local community.
° Nursing leadership is the force within the nursing profession that sets the vision for its
practitioners, lays down the roles and functions, and influences the direction toward which the
profession should go.
° Transformative teaching may also be termed Reflective teaching, an umbrella term covering
ideas, such as thoughtful instruction, teacher research, teacher narrative, and teacher
empowerment.
° Care complex is the nucleus of care experiences in the personality of a nurse formed by a
combination of maternal care experiences, culture based-care practices indigenous to a race and
people, and the professional training on care acquired in a formal course of nursing.